Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar

Being against the world : rebellion and constitution / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, England : Routledge-Cavendish, 2008 - xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: politics beyond critique -- Archaic objects -- Uncanny encounters: the West and the way of the rest -- An introduction to fetishism (with a plea for realism) -- Dead men tell no tales (on the most sublime of fetishists) -- Let us make love (and listen to death from above): notes on the history of psychoanalysis -- The love that seeks no other (further notes on the history of psychoanalysis) -- Horror in philosophy -- Rip it up and start again -- Sex, laws and rock n'roll (on music as radical organizing principle) -- Guevara's choice (on revolution as radical organizing principle)

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